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Structural Adjustment in a Changing World

Briefing Paper No. 4, World Summit for Social Development, December 1994

Acknowledgements

This Briefing Paper was prepared by Cynthia Hewitt de Alcántara. Comments by Yusuf Bangura, Solon Barraclough, Dharam Ghai and Jessica Vivian are gratefully acknowledged.

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